Accustomed Quote by Edith Wharton Download Open image “She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.” — Edith Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accustomed Business Company Joy Solitude Taste
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“She bade solitude good-bye. Good-bye to no schedule but whim; good-bye to her life among no things but her own and each always in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“No, solitude did not trouble her. She could spend long minutes gazing out the window, hours listening to the BBC on the public radio… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the air was full of that deep clangor of bells which periodically covers Rome with a roof of silver.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“High Pasture Come up--come up: in the dim vale below The autumn mist muffles the fading trees, But on this keen hill-pasture, though the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“... no treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“...the endless labour of rolling human stupidity up the steep hill of understanding.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
